[quote=pknopp;34448920]NSA spying on every American was until recently considered a conspiracy theory.
The USA using torture was considered a conspiracy theory not that long ago.
That the government would argue they can throw U.S. citizens in prison and deny them due process rights was considered a conspiracy theory not that long ago.
The reason they aren't easily dismissed is because too many of them have been true.[/quote]
Indeed
The msm is corporate controlled disinfo.
The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.''
More J. Edgar Hoover Quotes
"In politics, there are no accidents"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Anyone who has read factual history realizes they are being LIED to by their government. Americans are not yet ready to face facts that the U.K. and others have already seen about their government and what it is truly capable of.
Any American who takes the msm as a valid information source, clearly needs to educate themselves about propaganda and Edward Bernays
The Engineering of Consent" is an
essay by
Edward Bernays first published in 1947
He defines "engineering consent" as the art of
manipulating people. It maintained that entire populations, which were undisciplined or lacking in intellectual or definite moral principles, were vulnerable to unconscious influence and thus susceptible to want things that they do not need. This was achieved by linking those products and ideas to their unconscious desires.
Ernest Dichter, who is widely considered to be the "father of motivational research," referred to this as "the secret-self of the American consumer
In other words,
consumer psychologists have already made the choice for people before they buy a certain product. This is achieved by manipulating desires on an unconscious level.
The central idea behind the engineering of consent is that the public or people should not be aware of the manipulation taking place.
The "Engineering Consent" chapter of
Christopher Bryson's book
The Fluoride Deception describes how Bernays helped the
water fluoridation campaign in the USA.
The Engineering of Consent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Bernays and the Engineering of Consent - The Wall Street Psychologist